Hey all,

I've attached a picture of the problem I am facing with read file. I want my patch to read the number that has been written into a text file and display it in the number box. A little hard to explain what I mean but perhaps my picture will explain. Am I on the right track maybe?

Many thanks,

J

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/readproblem.png

Still can't quite get the problem...tried a rewind...nothing. Just need the text file to read the number and display it? Mind blowing.

It looks like your [pd readfile] is just clearing the textfile and writing a new value.

[t a b]
| /
| [clear(
| /
| /
[textfile]

There's no reading happening there.

Okay so I've taken the clear message away, should this help?

What are you expecting to get from [textfile] this way? All you're doing is writing to it. If you want to read from it, you need to send it bangs. Each bang will go to the next line. But if you use add2 to write to it, you're just writing a series of numbers on one line.

If you want more flexibility, you might want to look at [msgfile].